Boinae

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::summary Subfamily of snakes ::

| fossil_range = Paleocene to recent | image = Red-tailed boa (Boa constrictor constrictor) Rio Napo.jpg | image_caption = Boa constrictor (Boa constrictor) | taxon = Boinae | authority = Gray, 1825 | synonyms =

• Boina - Gray, 1825
• Aproterodontes - A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844
• Boaeides - A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844
• Boinae - Boulenger, 1890

The Boinae are a purported subfamily of boas found in Central and South America, as well as the West Indies. In the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), Boinae is considered an invalid synonym of Boidae.

Genera

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Genus	Taxon author	Species	Subsp.*	Common name	Geographic range
Bavarioboa	Szyndlar and Schleich, 1993	1	0	Asian boas	Europe and Asia, no specific date is known for the formation, biocorelation L.Oligcente to E. Miocene
*Boa*T	Linnaeus, 1758	5	4	red-tailed boas	Mexico, Central America and South America
Chilabothrus	Duméril & Bibron, 1844	14	4	West Indian boas or Greater Antillean boas	the West Indies
Corallus	Daudin, 1803	9	1	neotropical tree boas	Central America, South America and the West Indies: in Central America, they occur in Honduras, eastern Guatemala through Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Their range in South America includes Pacific Colombia and Ecuador, as well as the Amazon Basin from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Bolivia through Brazil to Venezuela, Isla Margarita, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. In the West Indies, they are found on St. Vincent, the Grenadines (Bequia Island, Ile Quatre, Baliceaux, Mustique, Canouan, Maryeau, Union Island, Petit Martinique and Carriacou), Grenada, and the Windward Islands (the Lesser Antilles).
Epicrates	Wagler, 1830	5	4	rainbow boas	Lower Central America through South America as far south as Argentina
Eunectes	Wagler, 1830	4	0	anacondas	tropical South America from Colombia and Venezuela south to Argentina
Titanoboa	Head et al., 2009	1	0	n/a	Fossils of 28 individuals were found in the Cerrejón Formation in Colombia, dating back to the Paleocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period, 60-58 mya.
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• ) Not including the nominate subspecies. T) Type genus.

Taxonomy

The genera Acrantophis and Sanzinia were erroneously synonymized with the genus Boa by Kluge in 1991. These have now been transferred to the resurrected subfamily Sanziniinae. The genus *Candoia *has similarly been transferred to its own subfamily, Candoiinae.

References

References

1. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. ''Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference Vol. 1''. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. {{ISBN. 1-893777-00-6 (series). {{ISBN. 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
2. {{ITIS
3. "Bavarioboa sp. (Serpentes, Boidae) from the Oligocene / Miocene of eastern Turkey with comments on connections between European and Asiatic snake faunas".
4. Kluge, A.G.. (1991). "Boine Snake Phylogeny and Research Cycles". Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Zoology, Univ. Of Michigan.
5. Reynolds, R.G.. (2014). "Toward a Tree-of-Life for the boas and pythons: Multilocus species-level phylogeny with unprecedented taxon sampling". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
6. Pyron, R.A.. (2013). "A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes". BMC Evolutionary Biology.

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